Generational.
MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️
Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend! We had the fam home … which is my fave…and celebrated Johnie’s birthday. Keith and I talked about how wonderful it is when you LOVE being with your adult children.
It’s such a fun stage when you go from having to “parent” to simply being with them and being their friend. I’m sure it just gets better and better as the years go on as well.
Anyway. That wasn’t my thought. Although, my thought does go to generational stuff.
In Judges 2, it talks about the generation “who had seen all of the great things the Lord had done” and how “after that generation had died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done.”
They abandoned God and “went after other gods, worshipping the gods of the people around them.”
Hmmm.
Ya know…we were the generation without social media, without cell phones, without so much that’s swirling around that this generation has to deal with. It would be easy for them to not know God and to worship other gods like others around them (idolatry of people, the god of self, self promotion, selfish ambition, self, self, self…).
That is why sharing stories (testimonies) is so important. Writing it down is so important. Remembering what God has done in our lives and talking about it is so important. You don’t have to preach at them or force something on them…simply WALK with the Lord in YOUR life. They will see it. They will notice.
Also…if you have loved ones in the older generation around you…talk to them about all the things the Lord has done in THEIR lives. Ask them to share stories. Listen intently. I love having my grandmother’s old books with squiggly underlines in them and notes written in margins. That’s one reason I write in and mark up my Bibles like crazy….with hopes that one day, after I’m long gone, my children will pick them up and read some of what I wrote in the margins.
Anyway. Keep telling the stories. Keep remembering.
xox.eb
A few months ago, I started having communion every day and reading what Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 11. He says that Jesus took the bread and told us disciples to eat it in remembrance of him, and he took the cup and he said to disciples whenever you do this, do this and remembrance of me. And I realized it’s very much like the reason for Passover. Communion is for me to remember all the things that Jesus has done for me through his death, burial and resurrection. I receive the bread and that reminds me of the healing that He has done already for my body. I receive the cup and remember that because of his shed blood I have eternal life. And I pray that for my friends and family that are needing the same.